Yet it is not Dionysos who by himself has devised the game like a cruel child

[sovay]

My poem "Tapping the Vine" appears to have placed second in the 2011 Dwarf Stars Award. Thanks to lesser_celery for the heads-up.

One of the rides at EPCOT Center which I have remembered most vividly for the last twenty-plus years (I was three-ish the first time my parents took me, eight the second and last time; I remember insisting I was tall enough for Space Mountain at Disney World and then being convinced we were going to smash into something in the dark and die) was the now-defunct Horizons, which I didn't realize was defunct until derspatchel told me. This afternoon I found the script and had sort of a simultaneous attack of nostalgia and Weltschmerz. I wanted that kelp-forest future.

I am running a fever. Today could have been a lot better.

Comments

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

Oh I like that poem.

[sovay]

Oh I like that poem.

Thank you!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Well deserved.

[sovay]

Well deserved.

Thank you. Unexpected!

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Cool. Hope you feel better.

I just got Amoxillan and Vicodin. I think that's what the rabbis meant when they said you should be happy on Pesach.

[sovay]

Cool. Hope you feel better.

Thanks on both fronts!

I just got Amoxillan and Vicodin. I think that's what the rabbis meant when they said you should be happy on Pesach.

. . . Fun with dental, eh?

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. It took much less time to get the wisdom tooth out than I thought. Localized anesthetic was definitely worth it.

[larryhammer]

Yowsas.

---L.

[sovay]

Yowsas.

I went to bed in a rotten mood last night. I woke up to find a message on Facebook from someone who had fallen in love with Singing Innocence and Experience, a message on Livejournal from someone who had fallen in love with "The Clock House," and my collaboration with Caitlín, "In the Praying Windows of the Sea," has been reprinted in the latest issue of Sirenia Digest. Okay, universe, I get the point!

[larryhammer]

And if you don't watch out, MORE good things will happen to you!

---L.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're getting lovely messages like that. I'm looking forward to "Praying Windows" very much (Caitlin's response to me saying this - and praising your writing - was "We need more short fiction from her.")

[sovay]

I'm looking forward to "Praying Windows" very much (Caitlin's response to me saying this - and praising your writing - was "We need more short fiction from her.")

I'm trying!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm very glad about the poem. (Not the fever)

[sovay]

I'm very glad about the poem. (Not the fever)

Thank you! (When it's a fever of inspiration, you can be glad. I'm fine with those.)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

This afternoon I found the script and had sort of a simultaneous attack of nostalgia and Weltschmerz.

I'm sorry it's gone.

We went to Disney World once, when I was maybe two or three. I dimly remember a ride with large teacups, and a hotel room with my parents and sister. I don't remember wondering where my aunt and the dolphins were, so I take it I must have understood that there was more than one amusement park in the world, rather than all of them being the same place, because I think I remember before then going to a park she worked at.

I'm very sorry for your fever, and I hope you'll be feeling better soon.

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you.

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

My poem "Tapping the Vine" appears to have placed second in the 2011 Dwarf Stars Award.

Congratulations!

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you for being part of its initial publication!

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Does fever + kelp future = poem?

(Congratulations + sympathies = feel better)

[sovay]

Does fever + kelp future = poem?

That's an interesting question . . .

(Congratulations + sympathies = feel better)

Appreciated!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Sending febrifugal thoughts.

Nine

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

Sending febrifugal thoughts.

I learned the word "febrifuge" from Anne McCaffrey's Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (1983). Sometimes these things stick.

[domparisien.livejournal.com]

Bravo! (And feel better).

[sovay]

Bravo! (And feel better).

Thanks! (And thanks!)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

That's a fine poem. Well done.

Sorry about the fever - take care.

[sovay]

That's a fine poem. Well done.

Thank you. I'm glad you like it!

Sorry about the fever - take care.

I'm doing what I can. I feel much less awful than I did when I went to bed last night, or even when I woke up.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the award recognition! I hope to be reading more of your work soon. Hope the fever has come down ... do your fevers bring on dreams? I'm thinking kelp forests. :)

[sovay]

Congratulations on the award recognition!

Thank you!

Hope the fever has come down ... do your fevers bring on dreams? I'm thinking kelp forests.

Heh. The fever was actually gone by the time I woke up. I'm feeling significantly better now than I was last night.